Husam Maarouf is a Palestinian poet and journalist from Gaza City. He won the Mahmoud Darwish Museum Prize for Prose Poetry in 2015 and the Badour Al-Turki Foundation Prize for Arabic Prose Poetry in 2016. He has published two poetry collections, “Death has the smell of glass” and ”The loyal barber to his dead clients” as well as a novel titled “Ram’s Chisel”. He is the founder and director of Gaza Publications.
